"Royal Barge" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Title: "Royal Barge" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934
Date Created: January 1, 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
The Royal Typewriter Company of New York constructed their "Royal Barge" from red and yellow chrysanthemums, sailing on a sea made from blue delphiniums. View of the float with a vacated throne backed by the trade mark of the Royal Typewriter Company of New York and guided by 5 visible maidens with oars. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses. Float: Hotel Vista del Arroyo, Columbia, Royal Typewriter, Venice, Queen Float.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Arts
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Names: Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14560605522830
Latitude: -118.16081285476700
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_08765-04
8765
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025423g
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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